Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some reports said they came by sea. By other accounts, they forded the Massacre River from the Dominican Republic. One way or the other, in the hot, flat northeast corner of Haiti one morning last week, a band of Haitian exiles led by former army officers waded back into their homeland. Still dripping wet, silver-haired General Léon Cantave, 53, quickly organized his meager forces. Then they all marched off to overthrow, or at least harass, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's brutal dictator...
...know why I did it. I just had this urge." Then he found an old roof top TV aerial and, using it as a sort of vaulting pole, began to go up instead of down. One leap led to another, and in 1959 he went to Northeast Louisiana State College on a pole-vaulting scholarship (room, board, tuition, $20 a month for "laundry...
...Seminar members from the Republic of Ireland, Denis O'Sullivan and Brian MacMahon, the most important problem confronting modern Ireland is the present partition of the island, which cuts the industrial northeast off from the rest of the island, and divides the Irish population along religious lines...
...White House can be a genuinely funny place. For example, last summer, shortly after the publication of Who's in Charge Here?, President Kennedy invited me to the White House for an amiable chat. At the northeast gate a guard asked to see some identification, and I showed him my Diners' Club card. He grabbed the phone and said, "Mr. Gardner of the Diners' Club to see the President...
...permitting, will entertain most of North America. Saturday's show will start at dawn in Japan's northern island, Hokkaido, where the sun will rise with the moon already squarely in front of it. Then the tip of the moon's black, conical shadow will race northeast, crossing the Bering Sea and coming ashore in Alaska just south of the Yukon. West of Canada's Great Slave Lake, total eclipse will last for nearly...